Identity Theft resulting from Computer Fraud is a classification of criminal activity that entails the proliferation of fraudulent activity taking place through the facilitation of electronic, online, computational, or Internet-based settings.

Network security is a virtual preventative measure undertaken in order to protect the content of digital databases, computer systems, and electronic networks responsible for housing information and facilitating electronic activity.

Fraud is defined as an illegal criminal act that consists of the - alleged - purposeful misleading of a victim in a harmful fashion; the motives that may exist within a fraud charge may be facilitated by the intention of gain through deceit.